The artist must paint as he would speak. I don’t want people to speculate what I mean, I want them to understand.

Art is a weapon that penetrates the eyes, the ears, the deepest and subtlest human feelings.

Two wrongs don't make a right, but they make a good excuse.

It was starting to seem to her that being "forward-thinking" too often involved avoiding any kind of thought at all - especially about things that might benefit from a great deal of thinking.

Sometimes I think I've figured out some order in the universe, but then I find myself in Florida, swamped by incongruity and paradox, and I have to start all over again.

I don't have incredible knowledge about films or of filmmaking history; I'm not that kind of person.

She had to have faith not just in trying but in failing. Was she strong enough to fail Was she strong enough not to

I would never be happy with just coming to TV tapings, not working house shows, and just getting by, staying in the shadows. I'm proud of the fact that I can turn chickenshit to chicken salad.

Education has always been very important to me.

Youth is not a period in life but a state of mind.

Every band wants to go believe me, not everybody makes it, but they want to.

Love is a universal migraine. A bright stain on the vision, Blotting out reason.